U.N. Leadership: an Inside Look, and More

11/14/2014 12:00PM

A political fight is brewing in Washington as the President is expected to announce executive actions to overhaul the U.S. immigration system. Plus, a look at Canada's exciting and overlooked wines. Photo: AP

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here is up there and let simmer Andrew Solomon at this year's top ... I have cancer ... and on a and here ... the luge team ... we can tell him stories ... and stories ... are the foundation ... of identity ... and the Solomons most recent book the bestselling far from the tree parents children and the search for identity one the National book critics circle Award among many other awards and were so pleased ... to have and here with us today and you think so much for being here but it is today and congratulations on your latest award the double helix award from the cold spring Harbor Laboratory is on Wednesday congratulations some of ... your book in so many ways deepens our understanding of ... acceptance and it's been so widely accepted as a ... masterwork is that in itself resonate with you ... well it's incredibly thrilling that it's been widely accepted ... but the really points to a shift in our society that the conditions ... they use to be so heavily stigmatized are increasingly welcomed and celebrated ... and I think that that Gloria shift in our society ... and your book is so fascinating you write about families dealing with ... exceptional children either ... their exceptional because they will point that for perhaps for his aam ... aunt is aam all of these things are dealt with in your book cottage cheese ... children to become criminals who are transgender ... and you have a startling hearing you say that these differences all of these differences ... are what unite us ... he explained that ... I think people think that each of those individual differences is the sign of lonely place ... there only so many people with schizophrenia only so many with down syndrome only so many ... that will become criminals but if we look at the idea that all of these are families that receive themselves in some way to be normal with children who weren't some dramatic way exceptional ... that all of these families have to reconcile themselves to the difference of their children ... to me see that they're all going to the same thing and that all of us even if our children aren't as exceptional as those have children were quite what we imagined long the Fed had to have children ... and all of us negotiate that difference and it becomes the next US I think ... of the greatest intimacy there is an island in a session every every parent can certainly agree with that now this is a wide ranging up ... but it's spreading from up the personal places that right ... yes on eight had the experience of growing up is the gate I illustrate parents ... I spent a long time coming to terms with the idea that I was gay and establishing that I had some Citic Aiden today ... and my editors of the times many years later as we write about ten people ... and ideas are the most deaf people are born to hearing parents and I described the parallels between their experience ... at being pressed into a mainstream world and then discovering that their identity group ... with Plan experience and a friend of a friend had a daughter with support from I thought ... there it is again in the same thing over and over again ... and what effect does having ... exceptional children ... have on parents have on families ... there's an American sociologist to one said that ... we not only ... care for our children because we love them ... we also love them because we take care of ... and I think that's true I think the process of caring for someone vulnerable is an immensely bonding experience ... and I think ... that these are families in which found that the amount of care required is enormous and while some families can fall apart in the face of that ... the ones who manage a hatch out of bed and incredibly intense set of relationships and we can all learn from that you also know ... I came up with a very interesting framework ... for demonstrating how children forge their identities vertically for their family is ... and horizontally it later on often to appear but that can be alien ... to their families I find that such a fascinating and beautiful framework can you elaborate a bit ... political identities are the ones that are passed down generation ways the ones ethnicity one's nationality usually once language freed me one's religion ... and there can be arguments made in the United States as it's currently constructed the current presidency notwithstanding ... the disease here the white them to be a person of color but nobody tries to or vertical identities ... we allow parents to have children or like them and the Fed report in the society rather than the identity ... and then there are these horizontal identities ... learn from peer groups of being gay themed death ... and having down syndrome all this all these other things ... in which the child is part of an identity proof the parent has no previous experience with it ... and it's a traumatic process for parents to get to the point of ... accepting this children ... love ideally is there from the beginning ... and I do believe that most parents love their children but acceptance is a process that takes time ... and with these horizontal identities it takes a longer time ... and this time and thank you so much for being with us today what a pleasure to be here ... we're going to take a quick break we'll be right back in thirty seconds ... a political fight is brewing in Washington that the president is expected to announce exactly options to overhaul the U S immigration system ... and the moves that will likely test the already tense relationship between the administration and the incoming Republican majority in Congress ... with more on this story were joined by doubly SJ reporter ... Laura Meckler Laura thanks for being with us ... Sarah ... sell out what ... moves the president is expected to announce ... while this likely be several different about this that the Xanax has fallen to the most controversial the service center piece of it is likely to be ... a program that essentially says to several million people perhaps an eight hour here illegally Nenad states that ... the media not a high priority for deportation so therefore we're going to be the sort of temporary legal status any opportunity for a work permit ... facts are the centerpieces that the velocity some reforms and who actually is a priority for deportation and also possibly can efforts to make more legal visas available ... to you on high tech industry and that sort of thing so there's ... a lot of different pieces to take the good thing that can get the headlines is that first point ... and seller at the president of pressure to move before the Republicans take control in January ... the Saudi he's going back before the end the year so it's really a self addressed outlined in that respect ... Palm heel Congress doesn't like it that in a pushback against it no matter what happens if that happens now or in leader ... I aam and he can release you think he is Ardi postpone those accents place ... and he is pretty daggy and the White House's affirming that he won't back down before the end of the air and so what are Republican critics saying what are their main problems with this plan ... funny how this they say that he doesn't and the authority to do this and they also don't like the fact that essentially ... here this is the issue that Congress has been debating for years and more immediately over the last two years the Senate passed a bipartisan bill last year and it sort of died in the house sound blaster going into this year there was no action there on this sounds on this matter so ... essentially on the press this am sick of waiting for you and Congress is saying well you know it's it's is still around this is the CEO Michael were doing no we're not doing so has the class that ... essentially us the power to make changes and sell how back to this standoff between the parties gather suggestions about possible government shutdown ... I would like to test that they would like to put something in the government funding bill that's as ... you can use any money for this term and that would essentially talents the president and he presumably would ... be inclined to be so sad to matter and many this actually have a government shutdown taxi and off I ... really don't think that's likely to happen because you have it in incoming Republican leadership is saying no we did not want another government shutdown when ... there wasn't this the Republicans last year they don't want it again this year or next day for that matter and and that instead of its McConnell the new aam ... incoming Senate majority leader has has flatly ruled that out so I don't think that's likely to happen but there is a lot of frustration among conservatives who don't like this policy would like to find a way to try to stop that I write thank you for that Laura Meckler will be closely following this story and WSJ dot com ... we'll be right back with my lunch break and thirty seconds don't go away ... she ... the win ... when ... this is more than six ... seconds ... no ... slippers ... why ... isn't he ... Ch ... sch ... call outs that was a clip from Fox capture a film based on the true story of an I T is murder case ... involving a member of one of America's richest families and two brothers who were both Olympic gold medal wrestlers ... here with his review of the film is doubly SJ film critic Joe Morgenstern Jeff thank so much for being with us ... below to go into an so tell me you think that this is a subtle film up but also an enthralling walk ... it isn't ruling because it doesn't do the work for you if it gives you ... marvelously mysterious circumstances and characters ... and lets you put whatever names you want on the behavior ... of John DuPont at his trial was characterized as a pattern of skits and frantic ... but that's not what the moving stones and it's not withstand curls marvelous performance as ... an incident they were new for two months training Babacan and now everyone who comes to the movie will know that's him but ... I didn't and I didn't recognize him it's it's it's a phenomenal performance ... but this is a movie about ... control and ambiguity ... the rules characters does things does creepy bizarre things ... for reasons that only he knows ... him but ... we're ... very little understated but the two wrestlers who to show for years to come into his orbit ... that their play but turning to do with the marker off a low in these three performances were really extraordinary it sounds like you about their performances now what is site is the film and if any ... ends of the relationship that grew between DuPont and Assault's brothers and where it went wrong ... he will one clear inside is that ... here in the case of turning to doomsday ... the challenge rhythms Marcum summer ... it ... it's a relationship with me ... and it becomes ... a sort of a two person coal ... John Duke won't be immensely wealthy and twisted so I only of ... what was it that and in the nineteen eighties America's wealthiest family ... and ... been Mark Shields crude to go back to your first dance to talk so eloquently about the debt that he ... has no identity of the loan ... the fact that he won a gold medal in the nineteen eighty four ... Los Angeles Olympics teaser uses an empty soul looking for a place in the world ... and clearly John DuPont ... is ... becomes his surrogate father ... but nothing is that simpler than what is ... an extraordinarily slow cooling complex though ... I think huge alpha that it had found a fascinating found thank you ... thank you intended ... the guru reasons I had done ... actually move forward ... I mean the matter in this case goes ... I ... mean on that ... see the game ... hers ... yes that was that ... I am ... but ... the even automobiles go together like well start the car as though I've ... got a ... disaster waiting a long and storied tradition by partnering with Lincoln matters with whom ... he just signed a two year deal here to tell us more is doubly SJ Rumble Seat columnist Dan Neil of them thank so much for being with us ... they ... said adding any specific D tells on this deal ... who cares I mean ... it's a big using an enormous amount of money it would be that the only inches and is forensic and how much does it take to get the make at any work after to sell out hardcore the ... right ... to Boulevard and then a and so ... I now Pratt that's your job and therefore the ... soul ... it's not like the ants you know become people may say you know ... and stance that transcends my Repertory duties ... but to know this is a this is bringing together to bury a ... corporation's the Ntini ... and was about forty fifty people I'm guessing ... and and and Lincoln you now and into agencies found themselves in together in the dark and they're very very happy ... and the buzz around these ridiculous commercial ... it is is that this stuff up your ... listing ... but we have this kind of thing happening there a as you pray that in your piece that happens all the time in Iowa ... yes you use in a year into stores and cars you know there's a difference three stars and actors and typically when people become stars answer transcend whatever the role there and ... and and and the timing is an interesting character ... because he's up by as much this year and much darker ... they the failure to Launch for example ... I ... and the U S is really serious they are ... it's a you know ... the ins Interstellar is ... a lot has happened to them while they are united leathery Texas mopping up and sell ... I think it works really well TheStreet conventional material at these in here I think he needs to detect ... but that's just me ... I love it and now I'm you were viewing movies about so what do you make ... of that car that he's plugging the MKC premium compact ... crossover isn't worthy ... of a hit with malevolence out of it ... today the scene and this is like a happy St day if you send Dorsey ... Eddie Yoon apprise the really big stars is proportionality to be considered ... but Li has led to happen in the cartel is you know ... the ... water to dying ... Aubrey and hinted that they really in to see the mark with midsize premium ... compact ... front or all wheel drive ... the fuel efficient looks great you know they finally got into the styling muni CDs ... and a few nights it I think is a ... pretty successful ... competitive car anymore that that they need much more brand ... Enzo answer them I ... I ... don't think that Matt McConaughey has anything to lose by being associated with Lincoln ... well yes of course that's the big reasons why the agency's get together and here's another hint that they where the movie takes you know ... I am still is going to say I ... you know I've often thought ... oh you know with with Lincoln want their money back ... now I can't help thinking so much for that ... to you to create a different taken all the right that my lunch break ... United Nations is in the midst of dealing with in all of the Islamic State's the Ukraine crisis and numerous other global conflicts ... top leaders of the UN handled decision making on this world stage ... in the hopes of brokering lasting peace ... joining us today with this insight this United Nations high representative for the Alliance of civilizations ... and president of the sixty six the United Nations Assembly ... Mr Nasser of the month sees the on that's that ... thank you so much for being with us today it's really a pleasure to have you ... in your book you wrote about being president of the sixty sixth session of the UN ... General Assembly what was that experience like ... clothes for school that was the very challenging EU ... and the issues that ... assembly gets mauled ... the ... was the ... pity the important ... them ... to stop with this team for that session the sixty six session of the UN show Sunday was radiation ... because of the UN Charter ... and the ... chapter six ... the ILO the General Assembly of the yuan to deal ... with the magician ... and I try to the ... two ... and engaged the jar Ascendiant eating with so many conflicts and prices of all the lovely using ... that all of whom are using ... peaceful and equity and settling the that that the Copics the on the little ... now there are so many conflicts today that the UN is dealing with that like to ask about a few of the month start with the conflict between Russia ... and Ukraine do you think that sad it is being handled correctly what ... would you advise world leaders to do that ... first of all bundled BeFrugal ... and ... don't you a the only solution ... the two to solve this problem by using ... the radiation and the go ... if we do that I think we can avoid the ... from the crisis ... especially in the world today go school many challenges them better year ... for July ... you know so do we need more crisis about this ... especially the well that is the polis ... B came as the Golden Village ... I may have Israel and Palestine do think there's a chance we can achieve a ... lasting peace in that region ... ideally ... the that ... I mean ... we ... would be cool ... when they saw in that piece the agreement ... it ... things went to school in a different direction ... and I think we shouldn't lose hope ... we should ... in Katich Dundalk ... also of the most important thing that we should ... focus ... pending cottage boutique and went ... the pilot's union deserve ... to live in peace they deserve to have the role of state ... exactly the same as Chinese people ... they deserve to have peace ... and the ... region need to be ... the ... chief fuel and stable ... I think to ... profit from in years ... the ... we should the baby ... Hank adage would become Wilma ... and Betty hope you ... can tell us about your new role at the UN ... well the value of the Alliance of civilizations that said you and the NPT ... the created ... to deal ... with the with these ... but as the sole fall tour ... the ... and to prevent conflicts diffuse tensions around the world as you see today you know ... Miller wellness so many that crisis ... the the touch of uphold religious ... the side of the political crisis ... so this is one of ... the lamb lies to them as a nation ruled by focusing on four wheelers ... second-quarter or there's never been a more important time for countries ... to come together thank you Mr on a tear thanks so much